Suburban man charged in Chicago holdups

A south suburban Lansing man was charged in connection with several armed robberies that took place on the Near West and Northwest sides of Chicago, police said today.

Anthony Love, 45, of the 2300 block of West 183rd Street in Lansing, was charged Saturday night with five counts of felony armed robbery, police said in a news release.

Love was spotted by a Monroe District officer Friday night at an automated teller machine, blocks away from where a woman was robbed of her purse at gunpoint, police said.

The woman gave police a description that matched the suspect. When police approached Love at an ATM machine in the 1600 block of West Adams Street, they found the victim's belongings on him, police said.

Police later determined that Love matched the description provided by four other people on the Near West and Northwest sides who were robbed in January and February, police said.

All of those victims identified him in a police line-up, officials said.